Fics Like As the Romans Do

by edema_ruh

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

"We're really sorry," his father says, in a teary-eyed, wobbly way. "But your friend, Izuku, he's... He's gone, son."Katsuki can do nothing but blink up at them for moments that feel like an eternity, eyes darting between both his parents in obvious confusion, disbelief, and, more than anything, ind

by bunkuto

Shared tags: Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates, Mutual Pining

He stops. Or freezes. Either one, really.Because Suguru is decidedly not alone.He’s hovering over a man, his dark hair loose and spilling over his face and he’s…pinning the man to his bed, one strong hand pressed over the other’s wrists.“Fuck,” Satoru wheezes.Suguru brings men home and Satoru wonder

by TabbyCat33098

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Jaskier is throwing up flowers and refuses to tell Geralt who has afflicted him so. As Geralt grapples with Jaskier's impending death, he comes to terms with a few things himself. //“Who’s the unlucky woman?” Geralt asks, stepping into the firelight.  Jaskier starts, dandelions spilling from his ha

by Sea_Dragonfly

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

“Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.Penelope was ruined.

by platonic_boner

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

AU where soulmates can’t lie to each other.(That’s okay, Merlin wasn’t planning to lie to Arthur anyways! Haha.. ha.. ha…)

by milominderbinder

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?” “Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking. He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies

by GutterWitch

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

“Houston, do you copy?”Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…“Hellooo? I said Houston, do yo

by buzzcut__season

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Reki is insecure about his lack of kissing experience. Langa just wants to help him feel like he's good enough, even if teaching Reki to kiss means breaking his own heart. (yet another practice kissing au)

by sapphicflower

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

“Congratulations on getting nine out of ten questions correct! Without further ado, let’s move on to the last question..” Hanazawa paused for dramatic effect as the lights dimmed and the spotlights overhead honed in on their podiums.“What is … your hero partner’s type?”A brief silence.“‘Type?’” Izuk

by fakeplasticlily

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

To his unbridled horror, Wei Wuxian sees his face up on the giant screen in real time for the entire stadium to see. Still laughing as his face takes a moment to catch up with the sheer mortification he’s feeling, A-Yuan perched on his shoulders as the Lan Wangji cape drapes over them.There’s also c

by occultings (microcomets)

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Since he was a child, since Lan Wangji had first become aware of his own alienating effect on others, he has long resigned himself to a loveless marriage. Perhaps even a companionate one, so long as his partner was agreeable and unbothersome and let him have his own space.He could not have even begu

by Jazzfordshire

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

“Wait, when you say ‘you’ll be teaching’, you mean…both of us?” Kara asks, sounding more than a little apprehensive. “Lena and I will be teaching it together?”Lena’s own apprehension is so high that she’s fairly sure she’s seconds away from hyperventilation, but she’s surprising even herself with ho

by adietxt

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

The world spins as soon Sanji opens his eyes.It feels odd, almost detached in a way, like a dense fog slowly filling his head. He pinches the bridge of his nose in an attempt to chase away the sensation, hoping his fever would subside soon, when he’s suddenly hit with a wave of heat deep in his bell

by luckyday

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Jisung's never exactly been the studious type. Sure, he's smart in his own way, but that doesn't necessarily transfer over to the kind of intelligence that the education system relies on. Tired of struggling after his first semester, he takes his friend up on the advice of actually using the school

by machiavelLiterati

Shared tags: Mutual Pining

Anya sometimes forgets about Damian’s popularity. Specifically, his popularity with their fellow sixteen-year-old classmates (Alternatively: Anya Forger, fifteen years old, imperial scholar extraordinaire, experiences…jealousy? For the first time in her life when a girl from another class hands her